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Make Your Own Perfect Party Nibbles

If you love cooking and would like to add to your party food repertoire with some homemade nibbles we have found some great kitchen gadgets that will really up your nibbles game.

With these tins, trays and tools you can really impress all your party guests with some really different and delicious homemade treats, from small hand pressed pastries, mini morsels to the traybake tin that will make individual sized savoury and sweet bites.

With a size for every possible occasion, this trio of nifty presses will help you turn out beautifully uniform pastries, pasta parcels and mini calzones – simply cut, fill and fold to crimp the edges and seal. And they’re also perfect for creating samosas, mezzaluna-shaped ravioli, stuffed dumplings for dim sum, apple turnovers or savoury puffs – and don’t forget those classic British pasties.

First, roll out your pastry, pasta or dough and use the base of the press to cut out circles. Then lay your cut-out circle on top, add your chosen sweet or savoury filling and, finally, fold the press shut to seal the edges with a fluted finish, all ready for the oven.

Fill these tubes with bread or cake dough, pop the lid on, bake them upright in the oven and you’ll end up with an eye-catching tubular loaf ready to slice into mini individual slices. Brilliant for making canapés or fun-shaped sandwiches for children’s lunch boxes, there are three shapes included – heart, star and flower – and each steel tube has a highly non-stick coating so your loaves are easy to release.

Think baked courgettes stuffed with couscous, feta and toasted pine nuts; plump tomatoes spilling over with mozzarella and basil; roasted onions filled with spiced minced lamb and rice; baked potatoes with crispy bacon and Stilton; even apples full to the brim with nuts and raisins, topped with ice cream and dusted with cinnamon… all sounds delicious, doesn’t it? But the reality of hollowing out the veg ready for stuffing has been a lengthy and tricky task until now.

The Vegi Drill vegetable corer makes it easy to core all manner of fruit and vegetables, hard or soft, big or small, in seconds with very little effort. With four simple-to-change corer ‘bits’, it will deal with courgettes, carrots, onions and aubergines, as well as potatoes, tomatoes and apples. And don’t let the cored bits go to waste either – use them in your soups, stuffings and stir fries. Speedy starters, impressive main courses, exotic desserts, eye-catching canapés, the Vegi Drill is set to change the way you present food forever.